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November 9, 2007 at 12:15 pm

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General Lighting

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we had a regional emergency alert last night, but thankfully most of the East Anglian flood defences have held up..

Yarmouth had localised flooding, most of Suffolk has escaped unscathed but the river Alde has burst and Aldeburgh is starting to flood

There was an alert in town this morning in case the Orwell bursts but I think thats been stood down now…

whats it been like in your area? apparently the weather is headed towards Kent, and then the Netherlands and Scandinavia..
November 9, 2007 at 1:23 pm

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BioTech

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Minor flooding around here. The waves breaking against the sea wall were pretty impressive though.
November 9, 2007 at 1:33 pm

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Video on the bbc news site here

Looks pretty amazing, good though that no manjor damage was caused
November 9, 2007 at 1:35 pm

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Angel

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We had storm here last night too.

Nothing worse than we usually have, at this time of year though.

And nothing compared to UK.
November 9, 2007 at 1:36 pm

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General Lighting

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the East Coast got proper flooded out in 1953, and this surge was supposed to be heavier than that, but over the years our technology and defences have improved drastically..
November 9, 2007 at 7:30 pm

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titch

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News Crews, helicopters, Police everywhere lol… Ive seen the tide that high quite a fews times, don’t really get what all the fuss was about…
November 9, 2007 at 7:37 pm

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titch

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I was going to say it wasn’t all that, seen it all before etc.

But it does look quite bad in that BBC video.
November 9, 2007 at 7:44 pm

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saw on the news early some nut cases were trying to surf on it too :you_crazy
November 10, 2007 at 9:48 am

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Scouse

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General Lighting wrote:

the East Coast got proper flooded out in 1953, and this surge was supposed to be heavier than that, but over the years our technology and defences have improved drastically..

We are better of in the sense that we have early warning systems along the coastline and the meteorologists know about the storm surge a good few days before it strikes.
However, the sea defenses along the East Anglian coast were only built 1M above the 1953 storm surge level and they were only supposed to have a 50 year lifetime as well which means they are pretty useless. I think we got real lucky on Friday morning when you consider that the land has been sinking (eustatically) and the sea levels have been rising (isostatically). This coupled with increased ‘storminess’ due to climate change means the east coast’s sea defenses need to be updated asap imo. It appears that the govt. is unwilling to spend any money on this if the land behind the proposed update doesn’t exceed the financial cost of the defences which can be quite a bit. about £5000 per metre i.i.r.c for a sea wall.
The dutch government really went to town with their delta plan
Is yarmouth really worth protecting though? there’s nothing ‘great’ about it:laugh_at:
November 10, 2007 at 10:52 am

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Have you seen what happened to other countries? check this link out i feel proper sorry for the residents of Hamburg

http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=453132&lng=1

Its well weird as well, I watched a film called Flood only a week ago and the premise is the same as the Tidal surge and set in the same places!!
I was gonna watch Armageddon later but i think i’ll give it a miss now! :crazy:
November 10, 2007 at 11:23 am

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Scouse

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HemelRaver wrote:

Have you seen what happened to other countries? check this link out i feel proper sorry for the residents of Hamburg
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The bay of bengal (bangledesh) is the only other place which is affected by the tidal surges. They get them like every year and they have literally no early warning systems due to thier crap infrastructure. We had to study this case study in geography which was pretty upsetting. Basically some big shelters had been built after a particularly bad storm surge but the designers had neglected to take the religious beliefs and practice’s of the Bangladeshi people into account. Their religion (possibly Islam, i can’t remember) didn’t allow large groups of men and women to be together under the same roof. This meant that all of the men weathered out the storm in safety and there were a lot of women and children left outside to die:you_crazy
A simple partition would have saved so many lives.
November 10, 2007 at 11:34 am

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tarifa

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starlaugh wrote:

saw on the news early some nut cases were trying to surf on it too :you_crazy

if its a wave some nutters always gonna try an surf it dude! :crazy_diz
November 12, 2007 at 7:08 am

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Angel

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Looks like we were lucky..

This is a disaster :hopeless:

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Up to 2,000 metric tons of fuel oil have leaked near the Black Sea after a Russian oil tanker split in half.

It came apart after it was smashed by 108km/h (67 mph) winds and 5m (16ft) waves in the Kerch Strait between the Azov and Black Seas.

Four other ships sank in the storm, some of them carrying dangerous cargos, and several more were in trouble.

The tanker’s 13 crew were rescued after several hours, but more than 20 were reported missing from the other ships.

Dozens of vessels have reportedly been evacuated from the busy Russian commercial port of Kavkaz because of the storm.

Full story
November 12, 2007 at 10:33 am

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tarifa

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jesus :hopeless:
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